Usergroups and additional usergroup in vBSuperPMs - lite + Pro

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I would like someone if possible who has good knowledge of how usergroups work to explain this issue to me that I have been having with a modification.

Don't worry about the modification itself, I would like your opinion on whether this "ADDITIONAL usergroup" should override the primary usergroup in this situation!?

Ill try to keep it easy...

My forum has a usergroup that is not allowed to post links in Private Messages using a specific modification.



Please have a good look at the image you will see the two user groups I have highlighted which shows what they can and cannot do.

I want for e.g Veterans to NOT be allowed to post links in PM's UNLESS that usergroup makes a donation to the forum using vbulletins paid subscription which then places that person under an ADDITIONAL usergroup using this part of the paid subscription here. You will know that places them into a second usergroup which allows me to keep their user title fundamentally the same but at the same time gives them the extra permissions dependent on how that ADDITIONAL user-group is set up.




SO this means that in the first image there is a conflict of permissions because one usergroup can post links and one user-group cannot due to these usergroups merging.

TK Veteran = who cannot post links.

Forum Supporter = is allowed to post links (extra bonus) due to donation... Following so far lol.

So I have always been of the understanding that vbulletin will choose YES rather than no as YES always overrides no. It even states it here https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...ultiple_groups

So a TK veteran who has paid a donation that is now in placed in the additional user group of Forum supporter, the forum should choose YES to allow that TK vet with additional permissions of a forum supporter to now post links.....

I have been told that this is not the case from the modification developer..